Matthew Hinrichsen
Principal Software Engineer at Workiva
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Hinrichsen is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience leading architecture and scaling efforts at Workiva, where he helped rebuild a flagship document editor backend to handle tens of millions of requests per day. He combines hands-on engineering—designing persistence strategies, building local cross-product tooling, and developing high-throughput services—with people leadership, having led a team of 10 and now overseeing multiple product and infrastructure teams. His background in computer hardware engineering and early FPGA/display work at Garmin gives him unusual depth across hardware-adjacent systems and software performance tuning. Based in Ames, Iowa, he’s known for pragmatic platformization that balances developer productivity and operational scalability, and he brings a curious, detail-oriented mindset (and a love of sandwiches) to long-lived systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (73)
programming-language10
interpreter10
docker-desktop10
bengali10
golang10
consistent-hashing10
go10
editor9
codegen9
compiler9
pluggable9
visual-studio9
logger9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthinrichsen-wf/martini
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
Classy web framework for Go
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
golangmicroframeworkframeworkwebframeworkweb-framework
matthinrichsen-wf/efp
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Go Language Microsoft Excel™ Formula Parser
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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